ACLU donations surge to record level after Trump victory

The American Civil Liberties Union has received more than 14,000 online donations since Donald Trump became the U.S. president-elect late Tuesday night. The donations totaled more than $940,000. "In terms of online donations in a single day, it far exceeds anything we've seen before," said Mark Weir, the ACLU's chief development officer.

On Wednesday, the ACLU's website homepage featured a photo of Trump alongside the words "See you in court." In a statement, the 96-year-old organization called some of Trump's proposals "un-American and wrong-headed" as well as "unlawful and unconstitutional." The statement addressed the future president directly:

President-elect Trump, as you assume the nation's highest office, we urge you to reconsider and change course on certain campaign promises you have made. These include your plan to amass a deportation force to remove 11 million undocumented immigrants; ban the entry of Muslims into our country and aggressively surveil them; punish women for accessing abortion; reauthorize waterboarding and other forms of torture; and change our nation's libel laws and restrict freedom of expression. … If you do not reverse course and instead endeavor to make these campaign promises a reality, you will have to contend with the full firepower of the ACLU at every step.

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